Art therapy at Wayne State University will offer two new programs this spring.

New is a Thursday evening workshop, which will run from 5-7 p.m. May 13-June 22in the Community Arts Building. It will be similar in format to the Saturday art therapy workshop held during the winter semester.

The two-hour sessions are open to children and adults; graduate students will be facilitators for the workshop. The sessions will be planned art experiences designed to meet the goals of the individual participants. Therefore sessions will be geared toward using art to develop self-esteem, personal awareness and to develop social, emotional and other learning skills. Other purposes will beto develop creativity and imagination.

Art sessions usually involve one or more of the following: drawing, painting, sculpture, collage, mask making, puppetry and creative journaling.

The cost for the workshop is $25 for art supplies. For more information or for an application call Holly Feen at (313) 577-1823.

Also new this spring is a weekend workshop, "Aspects of Art Therapy: The Open Studio," scheduled for Friday-Sunday, May 5-7. Professor Pat B. Allen of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago will conduct the workshop. An artist and registered art therapist, she also co-directs the Open Studio Project, a cooperative community art studio in Chicago. Allen is the author of the book Art is a Way of Knowing: A Guide to Self-Knowledge and Spiritual Fulfillment Through Creativity.

The workshop will run 5-9 p.m. Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and 9 a.m.-1p.m. Sunday. The workshop is available for credit and non-credit. To register as a non-credit visitor call Brenda Collins at (313) 577-4665. To register for credit as a non-matriculated student call Bill Slater at (313) 577-4671.

For more information call Holly Feen at (313) 577-1823.